[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its b...ureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and contemplate the universe. It is bi...g, complex, demanding, competitive, bureaucratic, and chronically short of money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very... well, considering we never controlled him much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life than on learning yesterday from Bob's letter, that you had failed to enter Harvard Un...iversity. And yet there is very little in it, if you will allow no feeling of discouragement to seize, and prey upon you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I ...have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class th...at has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat.... They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious.... They are scum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The makers of the American Revolution had been quite content to work with man as he is, shaped by traditional kinship, local, and ...religious institutions. For the Jacobins, however, nothing would do but the remaking of man through the power of the state. Hence, the abolition, commencing in 1790, of the ancient estates, the monarchy, the aristocracy, the communes and provinces, the patriarchal family, the guild, the school and university, and any other structures which, by their long existence, might interfere with the state's work of remaking human consciousness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a firs...t-class university for the education of colored men ... and I wish to put in this caveat ... that the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one an...other are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »